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Well-equipped data protection board a must to enforce digital privacy laws, say experts

New Delhi: The draft rules for the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, published on Friday, have ignited discussions among legal and data privacy experts regarding the effective implementation of the law. “Provisions for criminal liability in cases of severe data breaches could go a long way in ensuring stricter compliance," said Nazneen Ichhaporia, partner at ANB Legal. On 3 January, …

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Mint Explainer: The digital personal data protection Act, its rules, and roadblocks

Live Mint

Companies waited nearly two years for the Indian government to frame rules for implementing the Digital Personal Data Protection Act—a threadbare legislation with a lot of queries on compliance mechanisms left unanswered. Concern: In emphasizing the “specified" purpose of the data, the legislators have created an overlap with the provisions of “Legitimate Use" under the DPDP Act, which allows data …

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Explainer: Draft DPDP Rules 2025 aim to protect citizens’ data

Live Mint

New Delhi, Jan 8 The government floated draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules 2025 last week for public consultation till February 18. Here is an explainer of the draft DPDP Rules 2025: What are the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules 2025? The Digital Personal Data Protection Rules 2025 drafted by the government provides for the manner of implementation of …

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India’s Digital Data Protection rules: A story of hits and misses

Live Mint

The draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules are finally with us and the long wait has for the most part been worth it. While the Act requires data fiduciaries to provide notice “in the event of" a personal breach, the rules state that intimation must be made “as soon as the Data Fiduciary becomes aware of it." Ever since Justice …

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1 week, 3 days ago

Push to protect children online faces basic challenges: Experts

Hindustan Times

India’s ambitious attempt to protect children online through its draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules rests on a shaky foundation: it depends on children voluntarily declaring they’re underage and assumes that parents have a higher degree of digital literacy, triggering a complex verification system that experts say is inherently flawed yet might be the best available option. The draft rules …

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Parental Consent Needed For Children To Join Social Media, Gaming Platforms : Proposal In Draft Digital Personal Protection Rules

Live Law

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Friday notified the draft rules under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 for public comments.The draft, among others, proposes to mandate parental consent for data-fiduciaries to process the personal data of children. The rules state : "A Data Fiduciary shall adopt appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure that verifiable consent …

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1 week, 4 days ago

Breach alert, parental nod in digital privacy rulebook

Hindustan Times

The ministry of electronics and information technology on Friday evening released the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules for public consultation, setting the stage for operationalising India’s personal data protection regime more than 16 months after the act was notified in August 2023. These rules are the key to operationalising India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, which has been in …

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1 week, 4 days ago

Government releases Draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, no penalties specified

India TV News

The government has unveiled the much-awaited Digital Personal Data Protection Rules Rules, 2023, omitting any specific mention of penalty for violation. The proposal comes more than a year after the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 was approved by Parliament. Key provisions in the draft rules The draft outlines procedures for obtaining explicit consent from individuals, including mandatory parental consent …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Govt may not define specific steps for parental control measures

Hindustan Times

The ministry of electronics and information technology does not intend to prescribe a specific mechanism for data fiduciaries to verify parental consent for minors using digital services, people familiar with the matter said, citing discussions between the government and social media companies on the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules held on Thursday. One social media executive, in the meeting, noted …

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11 months, 4 weeks ago

Alert first, act fast: Diktat on data breaches soon

Live Mint

Organizations that notice breaches of personal data may have to immediately alert users and flag them to the Data Protection Board, followed by a detailed filing within 72 hours. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, India’s first law on data protection, took effect in August, and upcoming rules under the Act will lay the ground for compliance by technology companies. …

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1 year, 5 months ago

India's DPDP Bill: Pioneering data privacy safeguarding with empowered individuals and responsible fiduciaries

Firstpost

The DPDP Bill signifies a pivotal shift in data processing practices, making it crucial for organisations to comprehend its provisions and ensure compliance The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill represents a significant step towards safeguarding data privacy in India. The DPDP Bill requires data fiduciaries to obtain consent from individuals before processing their personal data. The DPDP Bill also sets …

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1 year, 5 months ago

DPDP gives people command over their personal data: EY

The Hindu

The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill will empower data principals to have command over their data, said Lalit Kalra, Technology Partner, EY India. “The Bill gives more power to individuals especially in the context that for many years, organisations and various platforms have been collecting personal data of individual citizens,” he told The Hindu. Further explaining the additional rights the …

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2 years ago

Significant controls to govt. under data protection bill to hit investments in data centres: ITI

The Hindu

Significant controls and exemptions to the government under the proposed Digital Personal Data Protection bill 2022 are likely to make it harder for companies to invest in data centres and data processing activities in India, according to global technology industry body ITI. The Ministry of Electronics and IT has floated draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022 and has invited …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Draft Data Protection Bill Is A Common Person's Delight; Still Trows Up More Confusing Questions

Live Law

All must be familiar with the timeline leading up to the new draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, released last week for public comments. Obliterating the Idea of Compensation The earlier draft had a provision on compensation for data breaches in line with the European law and section 43A of the Information Technology Act which makes a body corporate liable …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Persisting issues: The Hindu Editorial on the new data protection bill

The Hindu

A new draft of the much-awaited data protection Bill, the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022, is now open for public comments. The new draft, unlike the 2018 version, does not refer to key data protection principles such as collection limitation — obligations on the data fiduciaries to collect only such personal data that is required for the purpose of …

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2 years, 1 month ago

How different is the new data protection Bill?

The Hindu

The story so far: The latest draft of the data protection law — the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 — has now been made open for public comments. With regard to the personal data processing of children, the DPDP Bill, 2022 carries forward the approach of its previous iterations. One of the most emphatic departures of the DPDP Bill, …

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2 years, 1 month ago

A first look at the new data protection Bill

The Hindu

The story so far: The latest draft of the data protection law — the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 — has now been made open for public comments and the government is expected to introduce the Bill in Parliament in the budget session of 2023. The government made revisions to this draft and introduced it as the Personal Data …

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2 years, 5 months ago

The Data Protection Bill 2021: Key Takeaways For Stakeholders

Live Law

In our vastly interconnected and globalized world, information technology is flourishing at an unprecedented rate. The Bill 2021 explicitly also states that personal data should only be collected to the extent that is necessary for the purposes of processing of such personal data. Rights of the Data Principal One of the most significant aspects of the Bill 2021 are the …

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2 years, 8 months ago

What Does The Data Protection Bill 2021 Mean For Commercial Industries?

Live Law

The second working session at the Bar Association of India's Seminar on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2021 held on 3rd May 2022 at New Delhi looked into the nuances of the impact that the impugned bill might bring upon industries. A Data Protection Bill which tries to bring both personal and non-personal data under it will raise the level …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Data Protection Will Win Only When the DPA Wins

News 18

With the tabling of the JPC report on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, a data protection law for India is seemingly imminent in the near future. Maintenance of DPA’s Independence Second, reluctance of the government to cede regulatory control often leads to turf wars between the respective ministry and the sectoral regulator, thereby diminishing trust of the market in …

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3 years ago

Blue Tick for All? JPC Report on Data Protection Bill Can Impact Online Anonymity, Privacy

News 18

One of the bigger achievements of the Winter Session of Parliament has been the tabling of the Joint Parliamentary Committee Report on the Data Protection Bill. However, the 2019 draft of the PDP Bill saw “social media intermediaries” being delineated as a separate class of data fiduciaries. Along with the introduction of this concept, under Section 28, it required social …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Personal Data Protection Bill: 4 Reasons Why Governments Bat for Data Localisation

News 18

With the Joint Parliamentary Committee Report on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 being expected to be tabled sometime this week, debates around key issues in India’s data are now heading towards resolution. Second, storage and transference of personal data of resident data principals to jurisdictions with lax data protection laws also makes their data vulnerable. Concerns over Data Localisation …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Data Protection Bill Provides Safeguards against Private Actors; State Gets Broad Exemptions

News 18

The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, which has now been more than three years in the making, will presumably see progress with the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Bill tabling its report in the Parliament this Winter Session. The fundamental way in which the Personal Data Protection Bill provides for these protections is by embodying the principle of informational autonomy …

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4 years ago

The New Indian Data Privacy Bill & Its Impact On Business

Live Law

Data is a collection of names, numbers, dates, measurements formatted to be machine readable. Following the framework of GDPR, India took its first step towards the draft of Personal Data Protection Bill on 27th July 2018 led by Justice B.N Srikrishna. The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 The 2019 Bill was introduced by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology …

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Well-equipped data protection board a must to enforce digital privacy laws, say experts

Mint Explainer: The digital personal data protection Act, its rules, and roadblocks

Explainer: Draft DPDP Rules 2025 aim to protect citizens’ data

India’s Digital Data Protection rules: A story of hits and misses

Push to protect children online faces basic challenges: Experts

Parental Consent Needed For Children To Join Social Media, Gaming Platforms : Proposal In Draft Digital Personal Protection Rules

Breach alert, parental nod in digital privacy rulebook

Government releases Draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, no penalties specified

Govt may not define specific steps for parental control measures

Alert first, act fast: Diktat on data breaches soon

India's DPDP Bill: Pioneering data privacy safeguarding with empowered individuals and responsible fiduciaries

DPDP gives people command over their personal data: EY

Significant controls to govt. under data protection bill to hit investments in data centres: ITI

Draft Data Protection Bill Is A Common Person's Delight; Still Trows Up More Confusing Questions

Persisting issues: The Hindu Editorial on the new data protection bill

How different is the new data protection Bill?

A first look at the new data protection Bill

The Data Protection Bill 2021: Key Takeaways For Stakeholders

What Does The Data Protection Bill 2021 Mean For Commercial Industries?

Data Protection Will Win Only When the DPA Wins

Blue Tick for All? JPC Report on Data Protection Bill Can Impact Online Anonymity, Privacy

Personal Data Protection Bill: 4 Reasons Why Governments Bat for Data Localisation

Data Protection Bill Provides Safeguards against Private Actors; State Gets Broad Exemptions

The New Indian Data Privacy Bill & Its Impact On Business